The Atlanta Bravesbrought in $442 million in revenue last year, for a profit of $92 million, but blamed the team’s debt payments on their new stadium in Cobb County for not leaving enough left over to spend big on free agents. After public subsidies, the Braves owners are on the hook for less than $20 million a year in construction debt payments, plus $6 million a year in rent, so, um, yeah.

And still more renderings, these of a USL stadium a would-be team owner wants to build in Fort Lauderdale on the site of Lockhart Stadium, the same site David Beckham has targeted as a training site for his Inter Miami MLS team. Are there spotlights pointing pointlessly into the sky? You bet! Is this, regardless of whether the USL stadium stands a chance of getting built, yet another reason to laugh at Beckham over how he can’t catch a break? Don’t you know it!

Here’s a video of what the chairs and shelving will look like at the new Las Vegas Raiders stadium. And here’s a picture of what the place settings will look like in the luxury suites at the new Golden State Warriors arena, but it’s just a still photo — come on, Ben Golliver, it’s 2019, don’t you know people want to see furniture in video form?

New York Islanders owner Jon Ledecky insists that the team’s proposed Belmont Park arena is still “on track for the 2021-22 season,” but what else is he gonna say?

Winnipeg will provide a total of $16.6 million in tax breaks and other operating subsidies this year to the Jets, Blue Bombers, Goldeyes, and Manitoba Moose, and bonus points to any non-Canadian who can name what sport each of those teams play. Economic Development Winnipeg CEO Dayna Spiring claimed that the public will make its money back — no, not through the taxes the teams won’t get breaks on, that’s a Wichita thing to say. Rather, Spiring said the public will earn its money back on exposure, via the value of Winnipeg’s name appearing on hockey broadcasts. Somebody please alert this Twitter account.

And finally, NBA commissioner Adam Silver want to make watching basketball at home more like being at the game, via “technology.” Wait, isn’t one main problem pro sports is facing that fewer and fewer people want to go to games because it’s just as pleasant and cheaper to watch games at home on their giant hi-def TVs? I mean, no complaints here if Silver really wants to replicate the smell of Madison Square Garden in my living room, but it seems a bit, I dunno, against their business model? Unless maybe this will be some kind of premium feature you only get by subscribing to their streaming service that will be described as “Netflix for basketball,” yeah, that’s probably it.

I’m not an accountant so I’m not really sure what’s real income or not in financial statements companies put out. That $94 million in profit that people have been using for the Braves is the OIBDA profit. The Operating Income, however, is listed as $8 million. The difference is from “Depreciation and Amortization” of $76 million, and “Stock-based compensation” of $10 million. Are those 2 things not real costs and just accounting funny business?

As the only American who has watched more than 5 minutes of two or more CFL telecasts on espn 7, I can say, with certainty, that the Blue Bombers play some hybrid version of Arena Football* on a metric field with players apparently recruited from the Witness Protection Program*. They play a meaningless regular season, that starts in the heat of summer, which ends with just about every team making their playoffs to vie for some grey colored cup. It’s sorta a league for Canadians who won’t/can’t play hockey.

Retractable roofs are a boondoggle. They’re attached to projects so the owners can appeal to as many people as possible when trying to get free money, but they never actually intend on using them in the open position because that would mean slightly inconveniencing the fat cats in their executive suites who couldn’t be bothered to deal with plebian concerns such as weather. I have yet to attend any sporting event in a retractable roof stadium where the roof was open, even on perfectly fine days. Sure there might be extra costs involved, but if the owners don’t have to pay for it anyway, why not shoot for the moon?

A public consultation is due to be published on four options for a new stadium / event venue for QPRFC in West London, of which one is realistic, and one has the field rising up to become the roof for concerts, exhibitions etc.

They may wait until QPR’s form picks up to launch it though – the Rs have drawn one and lost eight of their last nine, I think.

When it comes, expect downward-pointing searchlights, indoor fireworks, the full shebang.

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